Written by

Steve Jones
| The Courier-Journal

Malik Newman is arguably the nation's best basketball player in the high school class of 2015, but for one big reason, it's tough for him to get too specific when discussing the colleges that are recruiting him.

"I don't watch basketball," he said.

Newman, a high-volume scoring guard from Jackson, Miss., appreciates the irony that even as one of the country's most closely watched players - he's a target of the universities of Kentucky and Louisville - he's never been very interested in watching the sport on television. ...